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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!woody.apana.org.au!woody.apana.org.au!not-for-mail From: root@woody.apana.org.au (Ernie Elu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386BSD UUCP and News Date: 13 Mar 1993 12:13:11 -0800 Organization: Woody - Public Access Unix - Melbourne Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1ntf8n$qu@woody.apana.org.au> References: <C3oz2z.HqA@austin.ibm.com> X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 (boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com) wrote: : : Has anyone got 386BSD operating as a News Server connected via UUCP (modem) with cnews? : Is it stable enough to handle a few meg throughput a day and stay up? It seems : a simple enough set-up but I haven't seen anyone mention it. Are there instructions? : Is cnews ported? What is the price of tea in China? : Thanks, : Boyd : :I actually had c-news runnning for a while until for some unknown reason my disklabel info wiped itself and I had to re-install BSD. It took a fair few little patches to stop it using functions that it insisted on calling rather than the ones you have in your libraries. I did not want to go through all the patching again, so I thought I would try inn1.3 instead. It was a simple exercise to get it compiled. The only trick is it wants a fully operational DNS so I had to configure named first. All in all it took me about a quarter of the time that it takes to get c-news up and inn1.3 is far more interesting. - Ernie.